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Proposed:
The Truck-Penis Theorem
of Inverse Proportionality
columnist Stacy Feducia
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Japanese official
retracts volatile
remark about
attitude of U.S.
workers.
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Coach Lynn Hickey
leads Lady Aggies
to first place in the
SWC.
The Battalion
Vol. 91 No. 76 College Station, Texas
‘Sewing Texas A&M since 1893"
10 Pages Wednesday, January 22, 1992
Officials pursue $2 billion in foreign aid for super collider
By Melody Dunne
The Battalion
Foreign funding, especially from the
Japanese, could raise almost $2 million for
the $8.2 billion project known as the Su
perconducting Super Collider (SSC), a
congressional aide said.
Craig Murphy, spokesman for Con
gressman Joe Barton, said President Bush
introduced the subject of funding the SSC
to the Japanese on his recent visit there.
President Bush and Japanese Prime
Minister Kijchi Miyaza agreed to establish
a working group to set the parameters for
Japanese involvement.
Murphy said Texas has proposed to
spend approximately $1 billion on the
project, and the federal government will
probably spend around $5 billion, but
maybe more. The remaining $2 billion
could come from countries like Japan,
who could pledge anywhere from $500
million to $1.8 billion, he said. Korea and
Taiwan indicated that they might help
with funding once the Japanese commit.
India is also a major prospect for SSC aid.
The center of all this activity is located
inWaxahachie, 30 miles south of Dallas.
The expected completion date for the SSC
is sometime in 1999.
Waxahachie was the choice area for
this project because the land and rock for
mations are extremely stable. Dub
Maines, legislative assistant to Congress
man Barton, said the SSC's area is about
the size of the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.
"The key to choosing this area was its
stability," Maines said.
Many people wonder what the SSC
will do for the scientific community. One
collider supporter said in "D" Magazine
that the SSC "may hold the key to the res
olution of problems man has wrestled
with for millennia — 'What are the fun
damental constituents of matter, the basic
building blocks of the universe we inhab
it, and how do they behave?'"
Jennifer Hartman, a senior political sci
ence major who interned for Barton last
summer, said people who don't agree
with the SSC think too much money is go
ing into one project.
"They think all the eggs are going in
one basket. But I think this is a worth
while project because the results would be
a leap in progress for the scientific com
munity," she said.
Murphy said there have been several
technology spinoffs from the project, be
cause materials needed to complete the
SSC have been innovative themselves.
One such spinoff, he said, was a plastic
developed for the SSC that can now be
used in the medical field. This plastic is
different from others used before in the
past, because it can be sterilized. Other
plastics used in medicine were always
thrown away after their use.
1-2-3 ... lift!
Matt Ivy, a sophomore pre-medical major and member of the Tuesday night. Ivy is assisted by a spotter while doing squats.
A&M powerlifting team, works out in the Read weight room The weight room is open daily to all students.
Abortion
showdown
approaches
Supreme Court's decision to review
case magnifies issue for election year
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Supreme Court set the stage Tues
day for an important election-year
ruling on abortion but left open
the question of whether it will
broadly reconsider its 1973 abor
tion-legalizing decision.
The court said it will review a
restrictive Pennsylvania law that
has been substantially upheld by a
federal appeals court.
Activists on both sides of the
abortion debate said they expect
the court to use the Pennsylvania
case to undermine its landmark
Roe vs. Wade ruling. They said the
decision likely will make abortions
far more difficult to obtain even if
states are not allowed to outlaw
virtually all abortions.
“Roe is dying before our eyes,
and all 1 can say is good rid
dance," said Randall Terry of the
anti-abortion group Operation
Rescue.
“The days of safe le^al abortion
are now numbered," predicted
Kate Michelman of the National
Abortion Rights Action League.
Susan Low Bloch, a George
town University law professor,
said she doubted whether the
court would use the case to re
verse Roe vs. Wade because “the
case doesn't require it."
“There are cases from Guam,
See Abortion/ Page 4
Class times
Beginning today, all regularly scheduled lectures will have a
20-minute break between classes. The following is a list of the
new times for non-laboratory classes:
MWF:
8 to 8:50 a.m.
9:10 to 10:00 a.m.
10:20 to 11:10 a.m.
11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
1:50 to 2:40 p.m.
3 to 3:50 p.m.
MW:
4:10 to 5:25 p.m.
5:45 to 7 p.m.
7:20 to 8:35 p.m.
TTH:
8 to 9:15 a.m.
9:35 to 10:50 a.m.
11:10 a.m. to 12:25 p.m.
12:45 to 2 p.m.
2:20 to 3:35 p.m.
3:55 to 5:10 p.m.
5:30 to 6:45 p.m.
Council demands release of suspects
Libya faces economic sanctions if U.N. resolution ignored
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Security
Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted an
anti-terrorism resolution calling on Libya to
hand over suspects charged with blowing up
Pan Am Flight 103 and a French airliner.
The vote came after Libya told the 15-nation
Security Council the British and U.S. indict
ments against the men were baseless, and the
matter should be submitted to international ar
bitration.
It was believed to be the first time the Secu
rity Council has taken sides in a legal dispute
among member states. Although the resolution
did not use the word “extradition," that was
clearly its intent.
The United States and Britain — sponsors of
the resolution with France, which seeks four
Libyans in another airline bombing — have
said that if Libya defies the Security Council
resolution, it will consider imposing economic
sanctions within two weeks.
Possible sanctions could include denying
landing rights to the Libyan airline and pro
hibiting sales of aircraft and parts to the airline.
diplomats said.
The resolution approved Tuesday con
demns the 1988 bombing of Flight 103 over
Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people,
and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over
North Africa in which 170 people died.
The resolution cites U.S., British and French
requests that Libyan suspects be turned over
for trial, and “urges the Libyan government
immediately to provide a full and effective re-
See U.N./ Page 6
Cultural Awareness
Conference focuses on minority leadership
By Julie Polston
The Battalion
The fourth annual Southwest
ern Black Student Leadership
Conference (SBSLC) will take
place at Texas A&M January 23-26
in the Memorial Student Center
and Rudder Tower, and will stress
the importance of cultural aware
ness in today's society through
workshops and other scheduled
events.
Featured speakers include
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Nikki
Giovanni; president and chief-ex
ecutive-officer of Dynamics of
Leadership, Charles Barron; and
the Hon. Walter E. Fauntroy,
chairman of the board of directors
for the Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference.
This year's theme is "Armoring
for the Age of Ascension." Mar
cus Stevenson, chair of the confer
ence, said people must take action
by educating themselves, becom
ing more active religiously and
putting their families first. People
will then be able to deal more easi
ly with the current problems they
face, as well as find solutions to
these difficulties, he said.
The overall focus of the confer
ence is leadership, Stevenson said.
Attendees will learn how to use
the proper skills and resources —
such as networking — necessary
to obtain one's goals.
"The purpose of the Southwest
ern Black Student Leadership
Conference is to positively influ
ence the lives of black collegians
by enriching them academically,
politically, and culturally through
workshops, dynamic speakers,
and thought-provoking entertain
ment," said Lisa Young, student
director of public relations for SB
SLC.
Conference registration is
closed; however, several confer
ence events will be open to the
public. The Dallas Black Dance
Theatre will perform Thursday
evening, and there will be a Career
Fair all day Friday. Stevenson
See Conference/Page 6
DARRIN HILL/The Battalion
Don Rice, (left) of Bryan, airs grievances Tuesday against TCA Cable to Randy Rodgers, manager
(center) at a public forum held at the Brazos Center and attended by the B- CS city councils.
Residents
evaluate
cable TV
By Jayme Blaschke
The Battalion
Dozens of Bryan and College
Station residents turned out
Tuesday night to voice their
opinions on local cable television
service at a special joint meeting
of the two cities' city councils.
The joint meeting, called to gen
erate input as the cities consider
renewing the TCA Cable fran
chise, garnered dozens of sugges
tions, complaints and compli
ments.
Lee Freeman, assistant chief of
the Bryan police department,
brought up the most common
suggestion of the night, that of an
emergency warning system capa
ble of reaching every subscriber's
home through the cable system.
"If there's a (hazardous) train
wreck somewhere in the city, or
inclement weather like we're
having today, people should
have the ability to turn on the
T.V. and find out whether there's
any danger without having to
change channels to find out,"
Freeman said.
Bryan resident Don Gillman
agreed with the idea of a warn-
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ing system, and said it was an
idea whose time has come.
"This system needs a civil de
fense application that cuts across
all channels," Gillman said.
"Public safety should be a major
concern, and the cable system is
capable of covering that area."
The content of cable program
ming concerned Bryan resident
David Panak, who called on TCA
to maintain high moral standards
on the channels offered.
"I would like to encourage
TCA to take a stand against
pornography and violence in me
dia, and remove all of the pro
gramming degrading to women
and children," Panak said.
"Studies have shown pornogra-
See Residents/ Page 4